Recipe Ingredients:

• 3 to 4 lb whole fish with scales but cleaned inside
• 4 lb kosher salt
• Juice of 1 lemon

Sauce:

• 1/2 cup butter or olive oil
• 2 T chopped parsley
• Juice of 1 lemon
• Capers, optional
• Salt and pepper to taste

Wash fish with with lemon.

Place half the salt in a baking dish, just big enough to hold the fish.

Place fish on top.

Cover fish completely with the rest of the salt.

Bake in pre-heated 400 degrees oven for 45 minutes.

The salt will harden and make a crust.

Once cooked remove the crust and the skin should come off.

Sauce: 

Melt butter.

Add rest of ingredients.